Essef - 1974 - pocket - 223 p. - Hard SF in it's purest form. It was a routine passenger flight to Mars. Everything on course, until..the gigantic ship gave a slight shiver and fell apart at midsection. The "Arcturus," invincible cruiser of the void, was being sliced to pieces by blinding planes of light! Steve and Nadia, cut off from the rest of the ship, watched in horror as the lethal scissors of light came closer to their hiding place, until they were trapped in space by a frightful enemy.. the super-scientists of Jupiter! Cover art by Chris Foss. (VG-)

Smith, Edward E. 'Doc'
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Spacehounds of IPC
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Panther
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104685

€ 2,50 (voorraad = 2)

Essef - 1974 - pocket - 223 p. - Hard SF in it's purest form. It was a routine passenger flight to Mars. Everything on course, until..the gigantic ship gave a slight shiver and fell apart at midsection. The "Arcturus," invincible cruiser of the void, was being sliced to pieces by blinding planes of light! Steve and Nadia, cut off from the rest of the ship, watched in horror as the lethal scissors of light came closer to their hiding place, until they were trapped in space by a frightful enemy.. the super-scientists of Jupiter! Cover art by Chris Foss. (VG-, name on first page)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 237 p. - All the creative energies of the West have been directed into space exploration and development - dozens of new worlds are being opened up. Left behind on Earth are the sluggish remnants of former greatness. But in the East, a mighty dictatorship has arisen - a single absolute monarch rules: The Nameless One of the East. What follows is a raging conflict, on Earth and in space, conflict as only master science-fictioneer E.E. "Doc" Smith can write it. Cover art by Chris Foss. (VG)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 188 p. - The ship was called Pleiades, and it was Earth's first starship, it could travel anywhere instantaneously, but where it would reappear could not be predicted, or whether it could get back. The crew members were each a Psionic Prime with ESP powers unequaled in Earth's history. (VG)

Smith, Edward E. 'Doc'
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The Galaxy Primes
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Panther
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4135384

€ 1,50 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 188 p. - The ship was called Pleiades, and it was Earth's first starship, it could travel anywhere instantaneously, but where it would reappear could not be predicted, or whether it could get back. The crew members were each a Psionic Prime with ESP powers unequaled in Earth's history. (G, cover fold, name inside)

Essef - 1962 - pocket - 144 p. - What would happen if advertising agencies took over? What would happen if the Glotz-Hammermeyer Shoe Company of Armspit, Idaho, took over? It concerns a planet, Artemis by name, inhabited only by sun-bathing-and-health faddists. (VG)

Smith, Evelyn E.
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Unpopular Planet
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Dell
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123679

€ 3,00 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 335 p. - An act of violence trapped him... An act of love betrayed him... And suddenly he was the rogue stud of the universe! (VG)

Smith, George H.
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Annwn 5: The Island Snatchers
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Daw
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106948

€ 2,50 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1978 - pocket - 189 p. - Flying machines had not yet been invented on Earth's dimensional twin, Annwn. So Dylan MacBride thought it would be a good idea, even if a bit on the crackpot side from the viewpoint of that world's somewhat backward Victorian viewpoint. But when Dylan and his witch wife Clarinda tried out the machine by flying to Hibernia to attend a wild Irish wedding, they came a-cropper. For the Emerald Isle was not where it ought to be... (VG-, small cover fold)

Essef - 1964 - pocket - 192 p. - A classic of Science Fiction. Smith was a SF writer during the war, when he wrote the famous Venus Equilateral stories. This yarn is still hard SF but more mainstream space opera and less engineer's fantasy. Still, no one writes quite like Smith: "The book had been thrown at Charles Farradyne. Then they had added the composing room, the printing press, and the final grand black smear of printer's ink. So when Howard Clevis located Farradyne working in the fungus fields of Venus four years later, he found a beaten man who no longer burned with resentment because he was all burned out." (VG)

Smith, George O.
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Hellflower
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Pyramid
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114089

€ 4,25 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1957 - pocket - 160 p. - A classic of Science Fiction. Smith was a SF writer during the war, when he wrote the famous Venus Equilateral stories. This yarn is still hard SF but more mainstream space opera and less engineer's fantasy. Still, no one writes quite like Smith: "The book had been thrown at Charles Farradyne. Then they had added the composing room, the printing press, and the final grand black smear of printer's ink. So when Howard Clevis located Farradyne working in the fungus fields of Venus four years later, he found a beaten man who no longer burned with resentment because he was all burned out." (VG)

Smith, George O.
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Highways in Hiding
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Avon
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106987

€ 3,25 (voorraad = 2)

Essef - 1967 - pocket - 256 p. - a.k.a. 'Space Plague'. Story of disappearance and chase in one man's weird and terrifying race with time and unseen enemies to locate and stop a dread menace that struck slowly and painfully - from outer space! (VG)

Smith, George O.
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The Fourth "R"
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Ballantine
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114114

€ 2,00 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1959 - Ballantine original - pocket - 160 p. - a.k.a. 'The Brain Machine'. He was five years old, and he might be the smartest human being on Earth... (G, intact, but with serious spine damage)

Smith, George O.
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The Path of Unreason
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Ballantine
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120939

€ 2,50 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - first printing - pocket - 212 p. - The Path of Unreason (1958) is a standalone SF novel. It is set in a future timeline in which scientists have discovered a new type of radiation that travels faster than the speed of light. The study of this Lawson radiation has recently been complicated by the mental collapse of several outstanding physicists in the field. (VG)

Smith, George O.
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Venus Equilateral Volume One
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Orbit
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114281

€ 3,00 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 240 p. - A collection of hard SF stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction during the 1940s. The thrilling story of crisis and adventure in a 21st-century space station. (VG)

Smith, George O.
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Venus Equilateral Volume One
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Orbit
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081421

€ 2,25 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 240 p. - A collection of hard SF stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction during the 1940s. The thrilling story of crisis and adventure in a 21st-century space station. (VG-, name on first page)

Smith, George O.
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Venus Equilateral Volume One
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Orbit
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101028

€ 2,25 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 240 p. - A collection of hard SF stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction during the 1940s. The thrilling story of crisis and adventure in a 21st-century space station. (G, writings in front and back)

Smith, George O.
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Venus Equilateral Volume Two
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Orbit
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114282

€ 3,00 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 237 p. - A collection of hard SF stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction during the 1940s. The thrilling story of crisis and adventure in a 21st-century space station. (VG)

Smith, George O.
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Venus Equilateral Volume Two
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Orbit
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101027

€ 2,25 (voorraad = 2)

Essef - 1975 - pocket - 237 p. - A collection of hard SF stories first published in Astounding Science Fiction during the 1940s. The thrilling story of crisis and adventure in a 21st-century space station. (VG-, name on first page)

Smith, L. Neil
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Crystal Empire
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Grafton
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053772

€ 4,25 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1988 - thick pocket - 511 p. - All the world stood in awe of the might of the Sino-Aztecs' Crystal Empire. All but Sedrich Sedrichsohn. Charged with bringing to the Emperor his future bride, the beautiful and far-seeing Ayesha, Sedrich was an outcast, his life in ruins. Now he has a last chance at happiness - and revenge. "A science fiction epic filled with verve, dash, and inventive characters". - Chattanooga Times. (VG)

Essef - 1999 - paperback - 307 p. - Hap is made an offer he just can't refuse - proxying memories. This is illegal in bold with flashing lights. Cops don't want criminals who can pass lie detector tests. Before he knows what's happening, Hap is locked in a nightmare that threatens to tear his mind and his life apart. (F)

Essef - 1998 - paperback - 310 p. - Stark is a troubleshooter. He lives in The City - a massive conglomeration of self-governing Neighbourhoods, each with their own peculiarity. Stark lives in Colour, where computers co-ordinate the tone of the street lights to match the clothes that people wear. Close by is Sound where noise is strictly forbidden, and Ffnaph where people spend their whole lives leaping on trampolines and trying to touch the sky. Then there is Red, where anything goes, and all too often does. (F)

Smith, Michael M.
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Spares
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Bantam
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073115

€ 5,00 (voorraad = 1)

Essef - 1997 - first edition - HC with dust jacket - 322 p. - Jack Randall is a loner, an ex-cop and a dangerous veteran of a savage war. For the last five years he has been hiding out on a spares farm, guarding people who have never seen the outside world. Jack has a talent of attracting trouble and we find him on the run with seven of the farm's inmates... (VG)

Essef - 1998 - paperback - 317 p. - Spares - human clones, the ultimate health insurance. An eye for an eye - but some people are doing all the taking. The story of Jack Randall: burnt-out, dropped out, and way overdrawn at the luck bank. But as caretaker on a Spares Farm, he still has a choice, and it might make a difference. (F)